With AMD's official launch of the new Tonga Pro based Radeon R9 285 graphics card it was just a matter of time before we see some official announcements from AMD's AIB partners. Today Sapphire announced a total of four new Radeon R9 285 graphics cards, two Dual-X Edition and two new ITX Compact Edition versions.

In case you missed it back when it was officially announced, AMD's 28nm Tonga Pro GPU features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface which will be paired up with either 2 or 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The reference clocks are set at 918MHz for the GPU and 1375MHz (5.5GHz effective) for the memory.

Sapphire's Radeon R9 285 lineup includes two Dual-X Edition graphics cards, the Sapphire Dual-X R9 285 and the Dual-X R9 285 OC as well as two new ITX Compact Edition graphics cards, the R9 285 ITX Compact and the R9 285 ITX Compact OC Edition. All four feature the same 2GB of GDDR5 memory while, as expected, OC Editions also feature a slightly higher GPU and memory clocks.

The standard Sapphire Dual-X R9 285 sticks to reference 918MHz for the GPU and 5.5GHz for the memory while the Dual-X R9 285 OC Edition is factory-overclocked to 965MHz for the GPU and 5.6GHz for the memory. As a part of Sapphire's well known Dual-X series, this one comes with the Dual-X cooler which features a set of heatpipes with graduated size as well as two aerofoil fans and should keep the power-efficient Tonga Pro well cooled.

The new Sapphire ITX Compact series may appeal to many consumers. Developed for SFF PC systems, the Radeon R9 ITX Compact Edition feature a custom 171mm long PCB paired up with a custom four heatpipe cooler with a single center placed fan. The ITX Compact Edition still takes up two slots, but should be perfect for compact gaming systems.

While Sapphire R9 285 ITX Compact sticks to reference clocks for both the GPU and the memory, the R9 285 ITX Compact OC Edition even features a slight factory overclock which puts the GPU at 928MHz, 10MHz over the reference clocked one. Unfortunately, the 2GB of GDDR5 memory remained at 5.5GHz.

Unfortunately, Sapphire did not reveal any details regarding the price or the availability date but you can expect them on retail shelves as of September 2nd with a price of around US $249.

Sapphire has released a new R7 265 graphics card, the Sapphire R7 265 Dual-X, which will feature the new and improved Dual-X cooler.

Based on the AMD 28nm Curacao GPU, the R7 265 packs 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. It is practically the same as the previously available Radeon HD 7850 graphics card so it makes sense for partners to bring out same designs which we have seen on the HD 7850, as it is the case with the new Sapphire R7 265 Dual-X.

Apparently, Sapphire stuck to reference GPU clocks of 900MHz base and 925MHz Boost, while the 2GB of GDDR5 memory ended up clocked at 5600MHz. It comes with two DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs and should provide much lower temeperatures thanks to Sapphire's Dual-X cooler with aerofoil fans and graduated heatpipes.

Unfortunately, Sapphire did not shed any light regarding the price or the precise availability date.

Sapphire is one of AMD's AIB partners that has launched a full lineup of recently introduced R9 and R7 series graphics cards including the R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X, R7 250 and the R7 240. To be precise, Sapphire decided to announce no less than 13 different SKUs, including members of its famous Dual-X, Vapor-X and the Toxic series.

Sapphire's R9 series will include a total of six SKUs including three R9 280X SKUs and three R9 270X SKUs. What made most of the Sapphire fans quite happy is "the return" of the famous Toxic series with the R9 280X Toxic that will work at 1150MHz base GPU and 1100MHz Boost clocks while 3GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface will be clocked at 6400MHz. Judging by the picture, Sapphire's Toxic R9 280X will feature a custom triple-fan cooler as well as a custom PCB with 10-phase VRM.

The Sapphire R9 280X will also be available in Vapor-X and Dual-X SKUs, both with custom dual-fan coolers. The Vapor-X R9 280X will work at 950MHz base and 1070MHz Boost GPU clocks while memory will be clocked at 6200MHz. The Dual-X on the other hand has a slightly lower 870MHz base and 1020MHz Boost GPU clocks while the same 3GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 6000MHz.

Sapphire's R9 270X series will be pretty much the same as the R9 280X series with three SKUs including Toxic, Vapor-X and the Dual-X SKUs. The Toxic R9 270X SKU will feature 1100MHz GPU base and 1150MHz Boost clocks while 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface will be clocked at 6000MHz effective. As expected, the Vapor-X and Dual-X R9 270X SKUs are clocked lower so the Vapor-X R9 270X ended up with 1050MHz base and 1100MHz Boost clocks while memory works at 5800MHz and the Dual-X does not even have Boost option so it works at only 1020MHz base clock with memory clocked at lower 5600MHz.

Sapphire's R7 lineup is even more extensive with a total of seven SKUs including single R7 260X 2GB SKU, two R7 250 SKUs and four R7 240 SKUs. The most interesting part is the R7 260X one that will feature 896 stream processors, 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface and hit the perfect US $139 price range. The R7 260X is the only currently announced graphics cards that will have support for AMD TrueSound and Mantle API. Sapphire's R7 260X OC SKUs is clocked at 1150MHz for the GPU while memory ended up at 6600MHz.

Two R7 250 SKUs are quite interesting since Sapphire decided to go for a 2GB DDR3 equipped SKU while second one will feature 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Both feature 384 stream processors and a 128-bit memory interface. The R7 250 2GB DDR3 SKU works at 1000MHz GPU base and 1050MHz boost clock while memory ended up clocked at 4600MHz for the 1GB GDDR5 SKU and 1800MHz effective for the 2GB DDR3 version.

As noted earlier, the Sapphire R7 240 series will include four different SKUs with 1, 2 or 4GB of DDR3 or 1GB of GDDR5 memory. All four will feature 320 stream processors and work at 730MHz base and 780MHz boost clock, in case it is equipped with boost and feature 128-bit memory interface.

Sapphire definitely has most SKUs on the market and we are glad that at least some of those will be a part of Sapphire's Vapor-X, Dual-X and even Toxic series.

As expected, Sapphire has announced two new graphics cards that will be a part of its HD 7790 lineup, the reference clocked HD 7790 and the factory-overclocked HD 7790 OC Dual-X.

Although clocked at reference 1GHz GPU and 6000MHz memory clocks, the Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 will also use custom cooler with a single center placed fan, but will be priced at a suggested retail price of US $149.99.

The Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 OC Dual-X on the other hand works at slightly higher 1075MHz GPU and 6400MHz memory clocks and uses Sapphire's recognizable Dual-X cooler with two 80mm fans. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 OC Dual-X will be priced at US $159.99.

In case you missed it, the Radeon HD 7790 is based on AMD's 28nm Bonaire GPU and packs 896 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface.

Featuring Sapphire's well known Dual-X dual slot, dual fan cooler, the new Sapphire HD 7950 OC 950MHz Edition works, as the name suggests, at 950MHz for the GPU and feature 3GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1250MHz (5.0GHz effective) and paired up wiht a 384-bit memory interface.

The previously released HD 7950 OC Edition featured a cost effective blue PCB and had a 50MHz lower factory overclock, thus the new one could possibly end up to be a much better overclocker. For comparison sake, the reference HD 7950 works at 810MHz for the GPU while the same 3GB of memory was already clocked at 5000MHz.

The new Sapphire HD 7950 OC 950MHz Edition is already listed (and even available at certain shops) for as low as €380,36 (available at €387,72) or about €20 premium over the previously released HD 7950 OC 900MHz Edition.

Although they were aldready detailed earlier this month, Sapphire has now officially announced its two versions of the new Radeon HD 7950 card. The base model will feature a single fan while the OC version will end up with a much beefier dual fan cooler.

As far as the specs go, both models will pack 1792 stream processors packed in 28 GCN compute units and 3GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface. The base model ends up working at AMD's reference clocks of 800MHz for the GPU and 1250MHz (5GHz) for memory. The OC version on the other hand got boosted to 900MHz for the GPU although memory remained at reference 1250MHz.

The Dual-X cooler on the OC version packs two fans that cool a rather hefty heatsink connected to the copper baseplate via five copper heatpipes.

Both cards are already available with a suggested price tag of US $449 for the base version and US $479 for the OC one.